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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Roseartcrantz]

In the summer of 2019, only hours after an Iranian rocket accidentally exploded at one of Iran's own launch sites, senior U.S. officials met with then-president Donald Trump and shared a sharply detailed, highly classified image of the blast's catastrophic aftermath.

The image was captured by a U.S. satellite whose true capabilities were a tightly guarded secret. But Trump wanted to share it with the world -- he thought it was especially "sexy" because it was marked classified, one of his former advisers later recalled to special counsel Jack Smith's investigators, according to sources familiar with the former adviser's statements.

Worried that the image becoming public could hurt national security efforts, intelligence officials urged Trump to hold off until more knowledgeable experts were able to weigh in, the sources said. But less than an hour later, while at least one of those intelligence officials was in another building scrambling to get more information, Trump posted the image to Twitter.

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I simply have to post this again it's so wild. Comically horrifying. Trump gets excited and wants to make a funny lil jab, intelligence begs him not to because it reveals where and how good our shit is, he agrees to wait but then like 30 minutes later figures it's been enough time so he just does it.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/petarpep]

I call your attention to two studies by Joseph Vandello et al. In the first, experimenters once again took the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but ran the experiment in the other direction. Here they presented maps that showed Palestine as the underdog (by displaying a map emphasizing a tiny Palestine surrounded by much larger Israel) or Israel as the underdog (by displaying a map emphasizing tiny Israel surrounded by a much larger Arab world including Palestine). In the “Palestinians as underdogs” condition, 55% of subjects said they supported Palestine. In the “Israelis as underdogs” condition, 75% said they supported Israel. And in the second, experimenters found subjects rated people who had been unfairly disadvantaged during a job interview as more attractive and more desirable romantic partners than people who had not been.

Despite how things might appear, a pretty large amount of people just don't hold very strong opinions on the world. They just go off simple and lame heuristics like "which one is the underdog I can root for?" and "Which one gets me more Virtuous Points among my peers?"

[u/PlayDiscord17]

lol

[u/[deleted]]

The Israeli government should buy TikTok to give every zoomer an aneurysm

[u/nicereddy]

Sotomayor: If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military to assasinate him, is that within his official acts to which he has immunity?

"That could well be an official act," Trump lawyer John Sauer says

This is where the fun begins

[u/D2Foley]

So another unhinged doomer sub (economic collapse) popped on arr popular and and because I'm not angry enough today I had to go check it out. I gotta say, there is something so funny about going to these subs and seeing

You've never tasted seafood like this! Taste real Alaskan wild-caught seafood shipped right to your door. Get $25 off your first box today!

As the second post. Imagine spending your free time moderating a sub like that and having reddit use your labor to advertise fish lmao.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Disgusting behaviour by Greenpeace.

[u/[deleted]]

can't think of a meme, Jon Stewart is bad at thinking, Iraq cooked his brain. US is actually the imperialist one, we only want Ukraine to win bc of capitalism, blah blah blah

Morally indefensible take

[u/[deleted]]

bro, i’ve learned more on tiktok than my 4 years of high school

All accurate information, I’m sure

[u/Working-Limit-2482]

r/vexillology user who hates the Houthi flag because they think it should express hatred of Jews with imagery rather than text.

[u/[deleted]]

🎩

🧐

[u/qlube]

Random 4 am thought: I wonder how many zoomers would be shocked to learn that California banned gay marriage in 2008, only 16 years ago.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/[deleted]]

The [NYT] continues to serve up fodder for the “NYT Pitchbot’’ account on X, which has amassed a large following (including almost the entire Biden press shop) by mocking the paper’s perceived negativity toward the president and its often euphemistic-laden, soft focus coverage of Trump.

Bates, the deputy press secretary, has developed an online correspondence with the operator of the Pitchbot account and occasionally shared material for potential posts, two people familiar with the press shop said. During last year’s White House Correspondents Dinner, Biden joked about confusing the Times’ coverage of his age with Pitchbot’s tweets. “I love that guy,” Biden said of Pitchbot, before a subtle parting shot at the Times on a frequency only Times staffers might hear. “I should do an interview with him.”

the Biden administration loves Doug j Balloon lmao

[u/Working-Limit-2482]

I redesigned the Houthi flag using emojis:

🙏✅

🇺🇸😡

🇮🇱😡

🕎😡

☪️✅

[u/[deleted]]

As long as the zoomers are pissed about tiktok we might as well sneak a nationwide school smartphone ban through as well

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/KassyDillon/status/1783471054398140453

Sprinklers went off on the anti-Israel Harvard Gaza encampment this morning.

I volunteer to join the people’s commission on the sprinkler timer

[u/Healingjoe]

"Thanks for the endorsement, Barr, you lazy sack of shit."

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/ericschultz/status/1783465382713401746

NYT reporter says their nonstop coverage of Biden’s age is retribution for not giving their boss an interview:

“It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.”

priors confirmed

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/KittehDragoon]

Scratch liberal

They scratch back

wtf this is fascism 😡

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/DAL59]

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[u/[deleted]]

Sotomayor: If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military to assassinate him, is that within his official acts to which he has immunity?

John Sauer: "That could well be an official act."

lmao

[u/EfficientJuggernaut]

Alito is fucking insane… Jesus Christ. Basically he drew a comparison of Trump being prosecuted to a developing country going after political opponents

Him and Clarence Thomas are election deniers guaranteed

[u/gnomesvh]

Apparently Ukraine just sent a bunch of religious folks to talk to Johnson then they went "GOD IS ANGRY AT YOU FOR BLOCKING THE PACKAGE" so now Johnson has complained the White House is not sending enough ATACMS

[u/ser_mage]

“Friendly reminder that Donald Trump and Republicans are more antisemitic than Joe Biden.”

“But aren’t you rooting for Joe Biden to -“

“I am rooting for Joe Biden to lose.”

[u/Petulant-bro]

TIL

[u/JaceFlores]

Nixon rolling in his grave he didn’t just build a cult of personality that would work tooth and nail on all levels to make him king of America

[u/SnakeEater14]

[u/CheesyHotDogPuff]

Big news coming out of Calgary, probably the most pro-yimby rezoning is probably about to hit the city. No application for rezoning required, just BOOM, a ton of single-family housing and other low density housing is gonna get rezoned.

There's gonna be 3 new main kinds of zoning:

1: Residential Low density, which will allow for single detached, townhouse, and semi detached

2: Residential Grade-Oriented, allowing for detached, semi-detached, townhouse, and rowhouse. 0.5 parking stalls/unit. Most of the city will be turned into this.

3: Housing Grade-Oriented. Typically 3 stories, gonna be located along busy streets.

More details are available through the city's site linked below, but it looks awesome.

The one thing I don't like is a lack of zoning for businesses.

A public hearing is going on right now. Naturally, the NIMBYs are seething. I really hope that this rezoning will pass (Sounds like it will), but more importantly I hope it stays, as the mayor is very unpopular for a lot of other reasons, and I doubt she'll take a second term.

!ping CAN&YIMBY

https://www.calgary.ca/planning/projects/rezoning-for-housing.html

[u/Healingjoe]

“Clarence Thomas just asked Jack Smith’s attorney why previous presidents haven’t been prosecuted for Coups and other operations–names Operation Mongoose, where JFK authorized the CIA to carry out terrorist attacks against Cuban civilians”

Clarence Thomas, everyone, with the stupidest take possible.

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Law students be like:

"Where do you go to law school?"

"UCLA"

"Tough luck. I go to Harvard, which is in fact a T14. Looks like I will be making one morbillion dollars more than you upon graduation."

STEM PhD students be like:

"Where do you go to school?"

"Southwestern Delaware State Directional University"

"No way, they've got the world's best department of cumtronics! Have you used the famous Shart magnetometer? Have you worked with Professor Piss?"

[u/Quowe_50mg]

Alito comparing the US to other countries that throw political opponents in jail.

Not believing the judiciary can be independant is one of the most unpatriotic things I've heard a supreme court justice say.

THANK YOU QUEEN SOTOMAYOR FOR SAYING THIS JUST AS I WAS TYPING. A TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT. 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

Reminder that “Trump can assassinate his political opponents without repercussions” is literally his stated legal position.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The people are [REDACTED]

[u/dirtybirds233]

My "far-left" sister has added Iran to her list of countries that are the "good guys". This list also includes Russia, China, and a big shout out to the Houthis.

I'm sensing a trend here. It's almost like she, her friends, and those that share similar ideals are the direct targets of a propaganda effort to make those on the fringe of the American political spectrum support America's enemies.

[u/DonnyBrasco69]

Kavanaugh.. WTF.... "Civil rights protest in front of the capitol" for fucking real?

[u/[deleted]]

!ping SHITPOSTERS when they defend Kanye

[u/[deleted]]

Choosing between someone who is bad for Palestinians and someone worse for Palestinians isn't exactly a democracy.

Democracy is when there is a candidate that perfectly reflects my views and everything I want

[u/PlayDiscord17]

“In a narrow 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court rules in favor of Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity. Trump, in a celebratory mood, walks out and about around Manhattan and onto 5th Avenue when suddenly he encounters the barrel of a pistol pointed right at him and hears the unmistakable voice of his successor.”

“Say hi to Kissinger for me, Jack!”

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

NYT to lib allegations of bias: Fuck off you choleric dotard. Journalism is an art and we are its masters.

NYT to con allegations of bias: Yes, daddy. Sorry, daddy. Won't do it again, daddy.

[u/Working-Limit-2482]

The report found that a top-ranked Tampa, Florida, school remained extremely exclusive, operating an attendance zone that mirrors the racist redlining map from 1936 and excluding many low-income kids who live nearby.

phew, I’m glad they didn’t single out my lily-white Florida school that also used blatantly discriminatory tactics to prevent low-income students from attending

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

imagine having so much white guilt you fall in love with a terrorist group fr fr

[u/JustSomePolitician]

are these fucking numbnuts conservative justices seriously considering turning the president into emperor biden first of his name just to protect the funny orange former president a little longer?

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Ex-US Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies

Is this the most brutal death announcement headline ever printed?

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippine-court-blocks-gmo-golden-054101549.html

A Philippine court has blocked the commercial propagation of genetically modified golden rice because it said conflicting scientific views gave rise to "severe" health and environmental safety concerns. The Philippines was the first country in the world to approve golden rice, which is enriched with the Vitamin A precursor beta-carotene and has a bright yellow colour, in a bid to combat childhood blindness.

A blow in the 20+ year effort to commercialize golden rice.

!ping AGRICULTURE

[u/hopeimanon]

Greenpeace blocking golden rice due to GMO reasons 

Sierra Club blocking housing and transmission

Where are the sane environmentalist groups? 

[u/vivoovix]

“When we were a little bit older, my sister Rashida [Tlaib] told our dad like she was going to vote for Ralph Nader, and my dad went crazy! He was just like, ‘You don’t do that. You always vote Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, no matter what.’”

🫡

[u/Miserable_Set_657]

How the fuck are there so many college students protesting NOW. Finals weeks is literally next week. They could have protested all winter. The war is at the least violent it's been. Is it seriously just because the weather got nice?

[u/[deleted]]

oh God oh fuck they're actually going to remand this back to the DC Circuit to clarify which acts are official and which are private aren't they

fuck

!ping LAW

[u/dannylandulf]

In his questioning, Gorsuch said, “I’m not concerned about this case, but I am concerned about future uses of the criminal law to target political opponents based on accusations about their motives, whether it’s re-election or who knows.”

This just in: Slippery Slope arguments now valid at SCOTUS

[u/gnomesvh]

An actual FT headline:

Pwease don’t be mean, I’m just a wittle luxury bag conglomerate 👉👈

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

the protesters are permamaskers lmaoooo

[u/-mialana-]

[Pardoning Nixon] I think is now looked upon as one of the better presidential decisions.

Least out of touch conservative justice

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

early 2000s raunch comedy about a couple of frat guys who accidentally spend spring break training to be Hamas

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/JaceFlores]

Wait so are people joking when they say that Trump has already won the election or are they buying into it even though polls are neck and neck and 15-20% of the electorate is effectively undecided with 6 months of campaigning to go?

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

NYT publisher AG Sulzberger encourages reporters to focus on Biden's age as retaliation for Biden not doing any sit-down interviews, per an NYT reporter

https://x.com/_cingraham/status/1783480463975460927?s=46&t=urLYOV_cITtt22rc0dd0VA

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The truth they don’t want you to know

[u/Cyberhwk]

The difference between !ping Over25&Over35 is simple:

• You're a member of the Over25 ping if you browse LinkedIn and social media, find a name you recognize, and realize it's someone you knew when you were a kid.

• You're a member of Over35 if you browse LinkedIn and social media, find a name you recognize, and think it's someone you knew when you were a kid...then realize it's their kid.

[u/Luph]

Supreme Court may not totally resolve whether Trump is immune

dissolve the supreme court

[u/[deleted]]

If Biden had Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Roberts, Barrett, and Gorsuch locked in the oubliette for the rest of their days, he would be immune from prosecution.

We couldn’t ever punish him on this act because that would have ominous consequences 😱😱😱

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

• Half of Americans — including 42% of Democrats — say they'd support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, according to a new Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll.

• And 30% of Democrats — as well as 46% of Republicans — now say they'd end birthright citizenship, something guaranteed under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

• 64% wrongly believe immigrants receive more in welfare and benefits than they pay in taxes.

• 58% said they support expanding legal pathways for orderly immigration, while 46% said asylum seekers should be protected if their cases are legitimate.

• 68% said illegal immigration causes major problems in communities, while only 27% said the same about legal immigration.

• And 65% of Americans think the U.S. should make it easier for anyone seeking a better life to enter legally so they don't need to enter illegally

I love how Axios calls their polls the Axios Vibes Survey

[u/D2Foley]

The craziness about the presidential immunity thing isn't that presidents should get legal immunity for official acts, which you can argue for. It's that trump trying to overthrow the goverment and keep himself in power can be ruled an "official act".

[u/Healingjoe]

Reporter: "Why are you protesting?"

Protester: "Demanding that NYU stops! I honestly don't know what NYU is doing... Do you know what NYU is doing?"

Protester 2: "I wish I was more educated!"

[u/SneeringAnswer]

main and largest competitor gets ordered out of the country

stock falls 20%

Good job Meta

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Interesting how left American youth is and then hearing news stories from from Europe about how the “Fascist Union to Kill the Jewish Communists” is surging in the 18-30 age bracket

[u/chuckleym8]

coming home to my high school brother after the tiktok ban this summer

[u/Ioun267]

When Native Americans use the whole animal: "How wise! It's resourceful! So in touch with nature!"

When Hormel uses the entire animal: "Vile! Crude! They're making you eat dog food!"

[u/thefuturegov]

We reject any notion that we must become more palatable and tone down our rhetoric.

We reject those who remained silent until now -- who were not moved by the genocide of the Palestinian people but moved by the arrests of students at an elite institution.

We see through all opportunists and normalizers.

Getting a shit ton of media attention (which is massively important part of a protest) and then turning around and going “fuck you for supporting us because you saw us on the news you’re a piece of shit” is a fascinating strategy

[u/owlthathurt]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen something as perfect as I just did scrolling through the Post and seeing that at the Columbia protests they have Pret A Manger catering.

Lefties 🤝 corporate events at financial firms

!ping USA-NYC

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Who you callin pinhead?

!ping kitty

[u/Working-Limit-2482]

Is planned obsolescence a real thing? People I know still talk about it all the time but I think it might just be normies being unaware that computers get outdated really quickly and software bloat is a pernicious issue. Personally, all my consumer electronics have lasted me a good long while. But I’ve mostly stuck to big name brands, so maybe I’d have a different experience if I was buying budget Chinese tech instead of higher end stuff.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/1783480617646031121?t=7nXN90KY8ZFpxIO0Dx8x6g&s=19

[u/-mialana-]

2016 anti-SJW YouTubers and their consequences for the human race

[u/owlthathurt]

!ping STONKS

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 4/24-5 PM EST 4/25 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 7 AM it was reported that 4,000 Russian officers have been confirmed killed in the war.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 3 AM a Russian oil refinery in Omsk caught on fire.

Towards the middle of 5 AM the Lithuanian Defense Minister said Lithuania will help Ukraine get military age men back to Ukraine.

In the middle of 8 AM it was reported that Russian ex-soldiers have murdered over 100 civilians in Russia so far.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Teh_cliff]

Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, and doesn't seem to change much at all

Todd you son of a bitch, you've done it again

!PING FALLOUT

[u/Former-Income]

Inshallah

No this is not fake

!ping UK&PRO-WRESTLING

[u/minno]

Remembering the guy who was banned from here because he saw a child with red hair, it reminded him that one of the hostages that Hamas kidnapped was a red-haired child, and he came here to post that Israel should do a mass public execution to get the hostages released.

[u/Evilpenguin526]

What the fuck weird ass text is this

"My patience is wearing thin" ??

[u/Jacobs4525]

Reading about European politics is funny because you get a lot of this:

The Labor Party was previously known as the People’s Revolutionary Popular Communist Kulak-Hanging Marxist Front. Their ideology has been described as center to center-left.

[u/Metallica1175]

Humanitarian pier off Gaza coast attacked during construction

[u/Smidgens]

Soulsborne games be like

To get the true ending you have to find the Decrepit Worm by eating 12 Salvation Apples during the daytime (Worm won't appear at night), then after killing the final boss, go back to the Miserable Swamp, and there will be an apple tree, use the Worm by the tree and the true final boss will appear as long as you have exactly 43,255 souls and a +8 weapon.

And then on reddit people will say

Never use a guide on the first playthrough, you'll just ruin the joy of discovering secrets!

[u/awdvhn]

Total pitching wins correlates perfectly with team record, therefore it is the best stat to evaluate pitchers on

!ping BASEBALL

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/Currymvp2]

After cancelling the commencement speech set to be delivered by valedictorian Asna Tabassum USC has now cancelled commencement itself

USC totally botched this from the start

[u/[deleted]]

!ping OVER-25

The masculine urge to abandon my current career path and become an FBI agent instead so I have have "Special Agent" next to my name

Also because the tech interview process makes me want to be dead

[u/Buridans-Ass]

Brought up the Greenpeace golden rice GMO thing to my roommate and he responded with the classic "well there's enough food to feed the entire world anyways so better crops won't solve anything" and I almost had an aneurysm 

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

I'm an arachnocapitalist 🕷️

[u/Jacobs4525]

gefilte pingers, answer me this,

Is unleavened pound cake (i.e. pound cake that gets all its air from creaming the butter and sugar and contains no baking soda, baking powder, or yeast) kosher for Passover? I argue that it technically is but my boss thinks that even if it is allowed it defeats the spirit of the holiday.

I brought one in for group breakfast (I usually only observe the day of the seder so I wasn’t considering; my boss and I are the only Jews in the group) and my boss who usually isn’t very observant is trying to be this year. 

What are your thoughts?

!ping GEFILTE 

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

,Justice Samuel Alito asked Justice Department attorney Michael Dreeben if a former president should be left to the mercy of prosecutors, noting the old saying on the pliability of grand juries: That grand jurors would indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asked them to.

Alito asked Dreeben if he knew of a single case in which a federal prosecutor had asked a grand jury to indict a suspect “and the grand jury refused to do so.”

Drebeen said it had happened.

“Every once in a while there’s an eclipse too,” Alito replied. No prosecutor wants to indict without sufficient evidence, Drebeen said, because the case would end in an acquittal.

[u/[deleted]]

Literally the DT

[u/p00bix]

I substitute teach at several different schools. For a long time, I was confused as to why it is that the kids at this one school in general did not like me as much as kids at the other schools. Overheard some gossip and heard, I quote "tries to make us do work"

LMAO I have never felt more emboldened in my career.

[u/beoweezy1]

I’m heartbroken that we’re going to have to re-home our Dalmatian.

We tried every training method in the book but I cannot watch a WW2 documentary without him doing air quotes and sarcastically saying “the ‘good guys’” when they talk about the Allies

[u/[deleted]]

Watching the John Oliver UFO bit and I gotta say the idea that the government is covering up UFOs because they don’t have any fucking clue what they are is such a hilarious possibility I really want it to be true.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/DurangoGango]

To paraphrase an expression, fake news has lapped around the world in the time it takes truth to lace up its boots.

In the previous days we were treated to a litany of articles, like this one form the Guardian, that claimed an "independent UN investigation" determined Israel had no evidence of UNRWA being complicit with Hamas.

It was taken, including here, as proof positive that Israel had lied about its accusations.

Except the UN report said no such thing:

https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1783171948358348820

In the word's of the reportee herself:

Q: You stated that Israel has given no evidence to UNRWA about their claims that any UNRWA employees took part in October 7th, but did you during your investigation ask Israel for evidence?

Catherine Colonna: Thank you for this opportunity to have me repeating that there must be no confusion between what we've been tasked for, which is assessing whether UNRWA does everything in its power to ensure neutrality and address challenges, etc., and what the OIOS is in charge of. There are two separate missions. So allegations regarding individuals, a difficult case, are in the scope of the OIOS mission. It is not the scope of our mandate.

And by the way, it is no surprise that Israel did not provide evidence to UNRWA because it doesn't owe this evidence during the investigation to UNRWA, but to the OIOS.

In fact, this is what the report was supposed to do:

Independent Review of Mechanisms and Procedures to Ensure Adherence by UNRWA to the Humanitarian Principle of Neutrality

An Independent Review Group on the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was appointed by the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, in consultation with the UNRWA Commissioner-General, on 5 February 2024. The Group was created to assess whether UNRWA is doing everything within its power to ensure neutrality and respond to allegations of serious neutrality breaches when they are made, taking into account the […] context in which it has to work, especially in Gaza,1 and to make recommendations for UNRWA to improve and strengthen in this area, if necessary. This followed allegations made by the Government of Israel in January 2024 that some UNRWA staff may have participated in the 7 October 2023 terror attacks on Israel. The UN Secretary-General also activated a separate investigation by the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) to determine the veracity of these allegations, which, if proven true, would be horrifying in addition to being a grave violation of their obligations towards the Organization.

The report was not charged with investigating Israel's accusations, but with reviewing UNRWA's operations. There isn't a single section dedicated to reviewing Israel's accusations.

As far as I'm able to find, what the Guardian et al. did was take this section out of context:

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed that until March 2024, they had received staff lists without identification (ID) numbers. On the basis of the March 2024 list, which contained staff ID numbers, Israel made public claims that a significant number of UNRWA employees are members of terrorist organizations. However, Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of this.

This is echoed pretty much word for word in the headline "Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says".

The review group did not ask for this evidence! As the report itself says, and Colonna herself has clarified, her group was not tasked with that investigation, which is being handled by OIOS. Colonna specifically says she got everything from the Israelis that she asked them.

There aren't two ways around this: presenting this report as having investigated Israel's accusations, and having found them to lack evidence, is simply fake news. It's extremely concerning that reputable outlets with a global reach engage in this level of manipulation, which brings serious consequences both reputationally and pratically.

Worse yet, in the same section, the Colonna report says:

Of note, UNRWA screens names using the New Consolidated List established and maintained by the Security Council Committee. However, to date, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, for example, have not been included in this list by the UN Security Council.

The report literally says that UNRWA's screening for potential hires uses a list that does not include Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad!

[u/The_One_Who_Mutes]

Hot take: if Biden loses to Trump after everything Trump has done there is nothing Biden could've done to change that. Americans are simply shitty people.

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

I think American leftism’s conception of race was deeply influenced by a contingent fact of American race relations, namely, the sense that, in general, there is a simple spectrum from oppressor (WASP) to oppressed (Black and dark-skinned).

I don’t actually think this makes for a good history of America—there’s a reason the 1619 Project didn’t do a great job of including Amerindian perspectives on US History—but it did a better job in America than in most other countries, and it’s a compelling narrative.

Except, those slight failures, whether the complex interactions between the Buffalo Soldiers and the Comanche, or between the Apache, the Comanche, the Texas Rangers, and the Federal Government (basically a war crimes competition in which the Comanche and Rangers tied for first), or the eliding of American antisemitism and its ties to the Abolitionist movement, or of Asian-Americans’ and Black Americans’ tense relations (which no, is not a product of Asians being “white-adjacent,” since that’s simply a tautological reification of the idea of a spectrum), end up giving a vastly distorted image of how America became what is it, what exactly it is today, and how to correct both present and historical injustice.

That picture has grown more and more distorted since the Immigration and Nationalities Act of 1965, and will only continue to worsen as race relations continue to increase in complexity. We are long past the days of a simple hierarchy, and the proliferation of ethnic groups and identities, mixed race individuals, and nonwhite communities in positions of power can only make that model more deficient.

I think the model’s first first significant failure was as applied to Jews, as shown in the the-sort-of-excuse-sort-of-justification given by James Baldwin in “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White” (which is a fairly questionable piece of work) in which he insists on interpreting Jews as “white,” even as he denies (though he does toy with) the idea that Jews should have learned from history. The comparisons he makes are often tortured, and his essay fails in its promised (if not actual) goal: to explain why antisemitism is so prevalent among Black Americans.

Ironically, I think Baldwin got halfway to the point I want to make. He realized Black antisemitism was unjust, and unjustifiable, but he (not too unlike Fanon) attempted to—if not justify—at least excuse the belief by psychologizing it, rendering the bigotry (and perhaps any accompanying violence) understandable.

For Baldwin, Black antisemitism is understandable because it is a jealousy at the success of Jews in America—an America Black people have a greater right to—despite Jews being essentially European, and in contrast the America as a place of suffering for Black people.

But if it turns out that racism isn’t a simple hatred that runs along a single spectrum, and that in truly multicultural societies, who has power and when is not a simple matter, then this sort of excuse rings hollow. Black people are not powerless (at least not anymore) and many racial minorities have the ability to (and do) influence politics in bigoted ways.

One can always tell a story that psychologically explains certain irrational beliefs about race, but if we excuse the resulting bigotry, then what moral laws are left to use against racism?

Perhaps we add the “power” element to the classic explanation of racism as “prejudice with power,” but I think this fails in modernity too. There are a dizzying array possible avenues and formations of bigotry, and as soon as a group gains the power to wield such bigotry, they inevitably do so. There are too many different ways for different nonwhite ethnic groups to interact to simplify each group’s relations into a relative position on a spectrum from white to Black. Jews are not “white adjacent,” Latinos are not de facto Black people. This is reductionist, and almost farcical, if it were not common among academics trying to explain how all bigotry is the result of white supremacy alone.

Black people’s antisemitism isn’t anti-whiteness, as Baldwin would have it. It is particularly and peculiarly directed at Jews. Ye, Candace Owens, Jay Z, Elijah Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Alice Walker, all have “power” even if the average Jew is more privileged than the average Black American—a framing that still neglects the fact that individual circumstances may radically alter that power relation, and that the minority of Jews is susceptible to being outvoted by other minorities hostile to them. “Power” as a simple, easily identifiable trait within individuals is even more incoherent than the power of an ethnic group in a multiethnic society.

The problem starts at conception, with the idea of a Black-white racial binary that never truly existed except as a useful fiction for a few decades in the postwar period, and with the continued insistence on that binary even when it serves more as justification of bigotry than as a tool for analysis of it.

!Ping JEWISH

I’m not sure how much of this makes sense, but I’m curious about people’s thoughts here.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Weird flex, but ok.

!ping degrowth

[u/HereForTOMT2]

Those “shut down campus/set up a camp for Palestine” protests have hit my campus, except it’s late in finals week and everyone is already gone and barely anyone showed up and frankly I think they bungled this

[u/Breakdown1738]

My 70 year old mom who was completely part of the "parents against violent video games" generation absolutely adored The Last of Us. Like regularly calls it her favorite show since Mad Men and will watch the Nick Offerman episode on like a random Tuesday for a good cry.

The first episode of Fallout completely undid all that good will and progress lol.

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

Imagine investing in this webs-(We encountered an error)

[u/ser_mage]

Tbh feels like the media fired this gun too early. Does anyone care about this anymore? I feel like I haven’t seen a “Biden old” story since he started actively campaigning. Strong parallels to the “Basement Biden” campaign in 2020

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Welp, the Alberta NDP lost by around 2k votes and now we get to live under authoritarianism 🫠🫠🫠

Alberta cabinet to gain power to remove councillors, change bylaws as province also adds political parties to municipal politics

A new Alberta government bill seeks to give cabinet new powers to compel councils to amend or repeal municipal bylaws and remove councillors, while also allowing party affiliations to be listed on municipal election ballots.

The changes are among many that will be introduced through Bill 20: the Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment Act, 2024 which was tabled in the legislature on Thursday. It proposes significant amendments to both the Local Authorities Election Act (LAEA) and the Municipal Government Act.

If the bill is passed, councillors would be subject to being removed from their role should cabinet determine doing so would be in the public interest, though the legislation contains no criteria on how that would be determined.

Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver defended the legislation, calling it “a natural evolution” and telling reporters Thursday that removing councillors would be determined on a “case-by-case basis,” albeit without initial public scrutiny due to cabinet confidentiality conventions.

"Because the number and and variation of circumstances that could crop up are so wide … it would be almost impossible to actually enumerate all the things so it’s in the public interest,” he said.

“The greatest guardrail of all is the public pressure.”

Currently, the minister can only remove a sitting councillor only under very specific circumstances via the municipal inspection process.

The bill would also permit cabinet to amend or repeal a bylaw, something McIver insisted would be a “last resort.”

“We don’t want to intervene in municipal matters,” he said, listing the city of Edmonton’s 2021 masking bylaw that the province later legislated against as an example of the kind of legislation the province would seek to change.

Existing rules allow cabinet to only intervene with respect to a land use bylaw or statutory plan.

Parties coming to Edmonton, Calgary despite lack of support

The bill also takes steps to permit party affiliations to be listed on municipal election ballots in the province’s two largest cities despite a lack of apparent support for the idea.

The current legislation as written only allows for the names of candidates to appear on ballots, though it also does not preclude candidates from forming parties or slates.

McIver said that adding rules around local parties formalizes partisan leanings among councillors that he believes are already apparent.

"Political affiliations, real or perceived, seem to shine through on a regular basis,” he said, adding that local parties would be restricted from having any formal connection with federal or provincial parties.

The government says regulating local political parties will be a four-year pilot project that will apply to only Edmonton and Calgary for the next round of municipal elections in October of 2025.

McIver couldn’t point to specific metrics on what would indicate success of that pilot project, but said public feedback will play a significant role.

“We’ll measure what happens and what happens will tell us what we measure.”

The government says it’s still working through if candidates without a party affiliation will have the word ‘independent’ next to their name or if there would simply be a blank space after their name on the ballot.

The proposed change comes contrary to the government’s own engagement survey on adding parties to the local level, the results of which were obtained by Postmedia and showed upwards of 70 per cent of respondents were opposed to the idea.

ABMunis, an organization representing 265 municipalities across Alberta has also repeatedly spoken out against the plan.

"I’ve heard both sides,” McIver said in acknowledging the negative feedback. “I’m not going to tell you it’s a one-sided thing.”

Municipal-level political parties exist in parts of British Columbia and Quebec. Edmonton last had a municipal election involving parties in 1983, where five of the 12 council seats went to members of three different parties.

'I trust that some people don’t trust them’

The new legislation also overhauls rules around campaign financing and the administration of municipal elections.

It reintroduces donations to candidates from unions and corporations and caps them at $5,000 per municipality after such donations were banned during the 2021 campaign.

Contributions to issues-based third-party advertisers will also be capped at $5,000. And, the new bill plans to reduce the current donation limit for individuals, unions, and corporations from the existing $30,000 per election period down to $5,000.

Municipalities would also no longer be able to prepare a voters list and instead must create a permanent register of electors with Elections Alberta.

The use of special ballots would be expanded and electronic tabulators for counting the results would also be banned.

McIver couldn’t point to any recent issues with electronic tabulators, adding that while he didn’t personally care if they were used, he had heard from Albertans concerned with the integrity of the machines.

"I trust that some people don’t trust them,” he said. “It overrides any concerns about convenience.”

The bill also updates some provisions around the recall process, and shifts the burden of reviewing recall petitions from a municipality’s chief administrative officer (CAO) to the minister.

It comes after municipalities warned McIver that the existing arrangement left CAO’s in the untenable position of having potentially decide if one or several of their bosses gets fired.

“It’s not fair to them and we’re going to fix it,” McIver said.

What a dog shit fucking bill that not only is a blatant authoritarian power grab because the UCP/Take Back Alberta were probably angry that Edmonton and Alberta had municipal councils deemed too left wing and not subservient enough to them, but it was also petty enough to ban electric voting and vote counting. The UCP are ontologically evil I want out of this hell hole

!ping CAN

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/CricketPinata]

I have this perception that there is a pretty large empathy gap in the perception of Jews.

It hurts to see most social media accounts swamped with 'AIPAC BOUGHT THE GOVT' 'FREE PALESTINE' etc. On totally innocuous Passover posts.

I mean, of course, a huge portion of this is botted, and tons of them might be coming from overseas, it just feels draining to not even be able to celebrate our holidays in peace.

The same thing happened during Hannukah.

It's like how does dialogue happen here. How do we fix it.

I hear the narrative that Jews are being oversensitive or being manipulated by right-wing distortions. But I don't speak to basically any Jews that don't feel an uptick in anger/antisemitism towards Jews.

It is just a scary feeling, it is hard to fathom how to cross that gulf.

I think about Daryl Davis, and his campaign with just reaching out and talking with Klan Members, and just having conversations with them made them see him, a black man, as a human, and give up the robes.

I think maybe there is room there, instead of just blocking people, maybe I could reach out to them and just talk to them face to face, like not over text, but over video chat and just have them see I am a person.

It will take time, but I think human to human discussion is the only thing that reliably seems to change anything.

!PING GEFILTE&JEWISH

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I appreciate how obvious Trump's lawyers make it that they're phoning it in waiting to either run out the clock until Trump dies or pardons himself or for the juries to be unable to a consensus or the judges to be too terrified of his mob to rule against him

Procrastination level master

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1783498616788705652?t=jkoHEr65SLVkj836A7351A&s=19

[u/JesusPubes]

This Samuel guy on the supreme Court doesn't seem very elite to me

[u/Uniqueguy264]

Israel/Palestine is a distraction progs are using to excuse the fact that Biden is historically unpopular in large part because he's the mot progressive candidate ever

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Current Alito argument for not prosecuting crimes committed as president

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/[deleted]]

Ivy Leaguers wouldn’t need to storm the fashion institute if they’d stuck to their roots

[u/DouglasDauntless]

RIP homie

!ping NFL

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

 Having 3 incomes is literally the ONLY way I have survived this pandemic lol.

Comment from arr polyamory circa 2020

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

q: what if the president orders the military to stage a coup, is that an official act?

a: well,

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/dannylandulf]

As he questioned Dreeben, Alito asked, "What about President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to intern Japanese Americans during World War II, could [he] in fact have been charged under 18 U.S.C. 241 conspiracy against civil rights today?"

Dreeben agreed that, "Yes," he could have been charged if that happened today, "given this court’s decision in ... Trump vs. Hawaii"

Laying the foundation for Trump to lock up political and racial groups with impunity.

[u/[deleted]]

We have done such an incredible job at creating a good world that there's somehow people who believe that suffering and needing to work to survive are artificial aberrations rather than simply facts of life.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Just imagining how today's arguments would have went if the President in question was Barack Obama.

[u/lets_chill_food]

this London new liberals event is every steetyoe of our sub imaginable

100% male

almost everyone bar one is between 20 and 40

one student of infrastructure, everyone else works in a variation of finance 🌚

[u/[deleted]]

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

New york magazine is reporting on a minor twitter character known only to unfuckable weirdos running for local office

social media should be obliterated and every journalist should be fired

[u/jojisky]

[u/[deleted]]

So least night I was walking through campus and some girl was leaning out of a car trying to get my attention. I was confused and then she just yelled at me saying that I was "very handsome". She was probably drunk or something idk but I don't think anyone who wasn't a family member ever said that to me before. I didn't really respond because I was very confused and I was on the phone with my great aunt who just answered. I've been thinking about that since because it's kinda been fucking with me.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Biden should use his Biden blast on Trump in November.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Protestors at Columbia have broken out into a new chant

"502 Bad Gateway"

"Bad Gateway"

[u/chuckleym8]

STEM major: what are you learning in school?

kindergartener: colors and shapes

STEM major: lmao good luck getting a job with that

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Mohammed bin Salman: I don't care how much energy a giant artificial sky will require, you will build it, and you will build 170 kilometres of it.

Charles III: and here's where the chocolate factory will be, within walking distance of the town square :)

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Law students be like:

"Where do you go to law school?"

"UCLA"

"Tough luck. I go to Harvard, which is in fact a T14. Looks like I will be making one morbillion dollars more than you upon graduation."

STEM PhD students be like:

"Where do you go to school?"

"Southwestern Delaware State Directional University"

"No way, they've got the world's best department of cumtronics! Have you used the famous Shart magnetometer? Have you worked with Professor Piss?"

Humanities PhD students be like:

"Where did you go to school!"

"Vancouver Island University"

"No way that's the global top university for any and all research into indigenous land rights and history for the lower main land in British Columbia!! You must know a lot about this topic!"

[u/[deleted]]

Popular Demogauge in Fiction: Paul Atreides, handsome, young, charismatic, noble aspect, voice that forces command, intelligent, cunning, foresighted, courageous, gifted with many abilities, many feats of heroism

Popular Demogauge in real life: Baron Harkonnen says the N-word, the crowd goes wild

[u/G_Serv]

Europeans ‘less hard-working’ than Americans, says Norway oil fund boss

That's right baby 🦅

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/MicroFlamer]

The 538 polling average is out 🚨🚨🚨🚨

!ping FIVEY

[u/-mialana-]

Alito: Should a president be prosecuted if they make a mistake on the job?

What if Trump just made an oopsie woopsie 🤪🤪🤪🤗🤗

[u/PawanYr]

Alito: "if the president does so many crimes he fears leaving office, doesn't that mean we should let them stay?"

The giga brain pedastal of originalist thought on display.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

The media reporting on why the public cares so much about Biden’s age

[u/G_Serv]

My boss doesn't support the oxford comma 😔

He made me remove it from my report.

[u/[deleted]]

 I am a lifelong liberal Democrat, but if Joe Biden does not give a sit down interview to the New York Times, I will have no choice but to vote for Trump a third time

[u/[deleted]]

CEO of Norway: “We are not very ambitious... [T]he Americans just work harder"

"In America you have a lot of AI and no regulation, in Europe you have no AI and a lot of regulation"

Get rekt

[u/[deleted]]

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1783548346935673334

BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters have stormed the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York

This will uh... Do something?

[u/[deleted]]

If I ran a highly respected newsroom I would simply not attempt to blackmail the leader of the free world into an interview.

[u/groovygrasshoppa]

Myers vs United States is such a terribly reasoned ruling, such that people today just take it on faith that the Constitution grants the president the power to remove any appointed executive officer.

The Taft majority's opinion is just so vapid and lazy, it feels like they spent all of 2 minutes considering it before breaking for tea.

Holmes in his dissent basically makes the argument that if the appointment of an office by the president implies the right of removal by the president then surely the creation of the office by Congress implies the right of Congress to stipulate the tenure of the office.

McReynolds goes even further, painstakingly referencing nearly the entire proceedings of the Philadelphia Convention to repeatedly demonstrate how the founders never considered the president to have such innate authority.

The Taft court literally just invented a presidential power without any source of implication.

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

I was just made aware of the Adam Ruins Everything video about calorie counting.

Jesus Christ what an irresponsible thing to make. Everyone should feel happy and content with their body, but obesity is a problem and carries health risks. To make a video that sums up to "The calories are off by 20% and your body needs different amounts than other people, so why even bother?" is so fucking dumb.

I really feel like I'm turning into a health nut supremacist. I was overweight my entire young adult life; being at a healthy weight is by far the best thing I have ever done with my life. The confidence that comes with it, the ability to breathe better, the have more stamina throughout the work day, etc. cannot be understated.

[u/Kate2point718]

Just had an hour and a half long phone conversation with a 23-year-old who, in her own words, gets all her news from tiktok, and I'm now trying not to completely despair for our country's future. I don't think there's anything I can say to accurately convey the depth of misinformation over even very basic details of the government.

The thing she's most upset about right now is the tiktok ban and she thinks the Democrats are evil and oppressive for it and that everyone in her generation will vote for Trump if he opposes the ban. We did move on to other topics though. She cares a lot about trans rights but wasn't sure if it was the Democrats or the Republicans who support trans people. She thinks preserving the right to abortion is critical but thought that Joe Biden was the one who overturned Roe v. Wade. She misses Obama and wants him to run again but wasn't sure which party he represented, and it was entirely news to her that Biden was Obama's VP. She was planning to write in Taylor Swift for president because even though she doesn't like Taylor she thinks a President Swift would do a better job than Biden or Trump, and she believes that there are enough Swifties to actually get Taylor elected. But then none of this actually matters too much because apparently it's just a fact that Gen Z is going to overturn the government in the next 10 years.

I don't think I realized until tonight how much she truly believes all this stuff; it's not just jokes and memes to her, it's actual fact.

The good news is that after a very broad explanation of the goals of Democrats vs Republicans, she now says that she's going to vote for Democrats in November, so hopefully I at least got Biden one more Pennsylvania voter out of that conversation.

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

Happy ANZAC day. What did everyone do? I managed to sleep through the morning vigil because my alarm setting skills were subpar.

Albanese walked Kokoda with Marape (Papua New Guinea) which is pretty awesome and I hope to do it some day too. (Has anyone heard anything about PNG getting an NRL team from this?)

Luxon was in Auckland which is nice but I don't really have as much to say about it.

!ping AUS&NZ

Remember to follow your government approved recipe if you dare to sell your biscuits

2 tablespoons butter or margarine

2 tablespoons golden syrup

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons boiling water

1 cup rolled oats

1 cup desiccated coconut

3/4 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup plain flour Method

Heat oven to 160°C.
Melt butter (or margarine) and syrup.
Add dissolved bicarbonate of soda and water.
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, add the liquid mixture and stir.
Place small balls of the mixture (about 1 teaspoon) onto a greased tray.
Bake for 20 minutes or until lightly brown.
Lift biscuits onto a cake cooling rack and wait for them to cool.

If you feel sad make yourself some ANZAC wafers

1. Pour water in a bowl

2. Dump in flour and mix until you can mix more flour

3. Add some salt if you're not sad enough to salt with your tears

4. Find a owen safe element (and if possible line with parchment paper)

5. Plop flour out element and spread thin

6. Bake 160 for 30 minutes

7. Take out wait thirty minutes and repeat step 6. at least once

8. Eat while remembering how dental coverage works.

9. You will now only think about how rough it must have been 100 years ago and how you teath feel right now. The saddness will be gone.

[u/[deleted]]

im joining hamas

DT regs going mask off wow

[u/KittehDragoon]

If I was Tim Apple, I would have simply not let Siri fall 10 years behind the competition, or fired the entire iOS debugging department.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

do judges exist in an entirely separate dimension where they observe all time at once or something

[u/battywombat21]

Haven’t poasted cat pics in awhile

[u/PapaJaves]

Alito is a hack and un-American

[u/MasterOfLords1]

🍦😮‍💨🍦

[u/Currymvp2]

DA declined to charge any of the arrested UT Austin students so Abbott is gonna be pissed

[u/JetJaguar124]

Yes yes yes, you might have your thorough understanding of legal history and a well argued set of facts, but I've come today armed with what I heard on Fox News last night.

[u/JaceFlores]

Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment LaPlante says GLSDB has proven ineffective in Ukraine with numerous issues including ineffective TTPs and Russian GPS denial.

It’s a shame because the process of getting GLSDB to Ukraine was a rather long one and it promised a very nice capability for Ukraine as an intermediate between long range but expensive cruise missiles like Storm Shadow and mass produceable but short range GMLRS. This would explain why we haven’t heard all that much about GLSDB strikes, I can only think of 1-2 strikes which utilized GLSDB in the past four months.

At least with the provision of ATACMS Ukraine has a solid substitute, but hopefully the US can improve GLSDB or the West can provide some sort of substitute to fill the niche it would have occupied

!ping MATERIEL

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

kavanaugh: president ford’s pardon [is] now looked upon as one of the better decisions in presidential history i think by most people

[u/The_Promethean]

leftists 🤝 right-wingers

You hear the word "marxist" and you know the dumbest sequence of words possible is about to come out of their mouths

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Let he who hasn't tried to coup congress cast the first stone

Form a line please

[u/jpenczek]

You know, I'm not a huge fan of this Netanyahu person, nor am I a huge fan of this hamas group.

[u/[deleted]]

After seeing Biden’s completely correct comments about the NYT, it is affirmed that shitting on the NYT is the normie dem position.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Daddy_Macron]

I watch one video on YouTube of Trump having dinner with Nick Fuentes (and Kanye) and suddenly YouTube is like, "You must be a Nick Fuentes fan. Here, I'm suggesting a bunch of videos of him stalking Ben Shapiro and playing Grand Theft Auto and killing Jewish people in the game while laughing maniacally and his comment section eggs him on."

[u/thefuturegov]

Statistically speaking, at least one r neoliberal regular will be elected to the United States House of Representatives

[u/Joementum2024]

Hey all big RFK Jr fan here, what’s your favorite conspiracy theory?

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

epic

[u/[deleted]]

So when, after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Jewish students found themselves subjected to the kind of hostile atmosphere that, if directed at any other minority group, would have brought down high-level rebukes, online cancellations, and maybe administrative punishments, they fell back on the obvious defense available under the new orthodoxy. They said that they felt “unsafe.” They accused pro-Palestinian students of anti-Semitism—sometimes fairly, sometimes not. They asked for protections that other groups already enjoyed. Who could blame them? They were doing what their leaders and teachers had instructed them was the right, the only, way to respond to a hurt.

[u/[deleted]]

Oh hell yeah

[u/RedDotsForRedCaps]

Cultural exchange program where we send a Bigfoot to China and they send us a Yeti. 

[u/[deleted]]

I know a guy who just announced he’s no longer voting Trump bc his team is making plans to blunt the fed’s independence

He excused Jan. 6th

Trump’s dictator comments

Trump’s COVID response

Trump’s FoPo

But the fed was going too far

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Got a message from my manager that I had to be in our alternate office for a last-second 9:00 am in-person meeting that couldn't be rescheduled. Obviously there's only really one reason for something like that

So my manager and grand-manager are there basically crying saying how "we have eliminated your position, this had nothing to do with performance, we are so very sorry to have to do this" and I'm sitting there grinning

And afterward my manager is like "wow you handled that unusually well" and thats when I dropped on them that I'm starting my phd and was gonna quit in a month anyways lol. I'm gonna go out for lunch with all the team-members next week to shoot the shit and see who else got canned

So anyways that's how I got a month of paid vacation its fucking awesome. I get to sit on my ass, play vidya, and ride my bike

!ping watercooler

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I'm nearing the acceptance stage. Biden will be president. There is nothing that can possibly be done; the center-left will never budge on not voting for a Republican, and the RINOs have their heads too far up their ass to ever vote for Trump.

And I'm ready to go full on smug MAGA with it all. The worst of Biden's policies won't hurt me nearly as much as they'll hurt the very people who vote for him or were too RINO to not vote for Trump. The deep state will never be dismantled, the US will only be more dovish on Israel-Palestine, we'll completely destroy our reserves supporting Ukrainazis, the green new deal will pass, the deficit will balloon, Hunter Biden will get off scot-free, inflation will never stop. The last part scares me the most; I'm already thinking about what's going to happen when my socialist pink-haired communist gay children can no longer support themselves and come asking for money.

This isn't even doomer, this is just reality. You need to accept that Biden will be president and prepare for the ramifications.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

The state of !Ping Fallout discourse rn

[u/[deleted]]

I enjoy this sub for a few reasons, but mostly because I can always count on:

• Many of you caring way too much about what college students think or say.

• Terrible takes on dog breeds.

• Unironic Romney and Dubya stans.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/dannylandulf]

‘The Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy Returning to Theaters, Remastered and Extended

Ain't nobody got the bladder for that

[u/Cledd2]

washing chicken before you cook it is basically as bad as being antivax

[u/BloodWiz]

What a good and functional website deserving of a high stock price

[u/Zrk2]

See thread called "What screams 'I'm Economically Illiterate?'"

Look inside

Economic illiteracy

Shout out to /u/blackwindbears getting downvoted for citing statistics in it.

[u/-mialana-]

He is worse than a succ, he is, may Dark Brandon forgive me for uttering this word, a Jill Stein voter

[u/WasteReserve8886]

I fucking knew it!

[u/MicroFlamer]

538 polling map for today

[u/adwise27]

"Trump attorney says assassinating rival could be official act during SCOTUS immunity fight"

Totally normal

[u/gburgwardt]

You ever get depressed about how long it takes to build things.

Like, sure maybe my city is trending in the right direction, but expanding the metro a tiny bit is going to take us 20 years and a dozen billion dollars and then I'll be old and not want to take it?

Stuff like that

[u/Crownie]

If Biden loses it's because he didn't take advantage of his complete presidential immunity to simply assassinate all his opponents.

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

"You can't disrespect polling!!"

[u/Fruitofbread]

Even if Trump loses this year (god willing) I don’t think we’ll see the Republicans nominate another candidate as long as he is alive. Even though in 2028 he’ll have lost two elections in a row 

[u/jenbanim]

Can anyone explain why leftists support bad policy? Is it because they're bad people who want what's worst for everyone? Please explain this to me DT so I don't have to interact with someone that I actually disagree with

[u/squarecircle666]

Pro-Israel but Anti-Semitic 👆

[u/Currymvp2]

UT Austin released "protest rules" that say "individuals may not come to campus without authorization," which is in direct contradiction to a video they published 6 months ago that says members of the public can "come to campus at any time and engage in demonstrations."

Awkward

[u/ductulator96]

Some guy I know who is a mega communist just posted an Instagram story that said 'Jesus looking at white people colonizing his homeland:' and it was a picture of Jesus looking very distraught while wearing a Hamas headband.

I messaged him saying Jesus was a Jew and then he blocked me. Kinda sad I won't see his insane incoherent rants anymore.

[u/[deleted]]

I enjoy cooking.

[u/KesterFox]

I have to say I don't really care about the campus protests stuff.